European Tooling Forum
The European Tooling Industry
Has been identified as a strategic sector, due to the support infrastructure it provides for the economy, through its high level of competences and technological knowledge, and also because of its multisectorial and multidisciplinarity effect. These factors have a substantial impact on the growth of the European economy and qualified employment in Europe. |
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European Tooling Forum - Objective
The European Tooling Industry, although still holding its own in sales, is rapidly losing ground in the manufacturing sector to low production cost countries. Concerned about its competitiveness and being aware of the strategic importance and role that this Industry plays for the sustainability and growth of the European economy, the ISTMA Europe plans to organise with the support of MANUFUTURE Platform the European Tooling Forum, gathering for discussion Tooling companies, policy makers, R&D and Innovative organizations, media and European Decision Makers, to push and reinforce an Industrial policy to support a more competitive Industry in Europe.
Vision & European Policy
The transformation of the European manufacturing Industry into a knowledge-based sector, capable of competing successfully in the globalised marketplace, depends largely on a sustainable presence, in Europe, of robust capabilities in Tooling manufacturing.
Development of a new European paradigm for the tooling (moulds, dies and special tools) Industry, creating the foundations for an excellence knowledge area which, by its transversal and strategic horizontality, supports the sustainability in all industrial sectors, from manufacturing of micro applications to large devices, from “one-of-a-kind” and small series to large scale and massive production.
The research addressing innovative technological developments should provide a contribution for the new European paradigm in Tooling Industry, in particular in the support of new business models and dynamic networking and in the deployment of the technological foundations of extended services along the tools life cycle.
